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• Title:The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes / gathered by John Gerarde ...
  
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• Variant Title:Herball
  Generall historie of plantes
  
• Author/Creator:Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Sinclair, Hugh M. (Hugh Macdonald), 1910-1990, former owner
  Norton, John, -1612, printer.
  Norton, Bonham, 1565-1635, bookseller.
  Bollifant, Edmund, -1602, printer.
  Bright, Henry, 1784-1869, former owner.
  William C. Gibson History of Medicine and Science Collection.
  Henry Messerschmidt Collection.
  Merivale Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Imprinted at London : By Iohn Norton, 1597.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Merivale .G472 1597
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Memorial medium oversizeWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QK41 .G3 1597
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
  Herbs--Early works to 1800.
  Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.
  Herbals--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:[20], 1392, [72] p. : illustrations (woodcuts), portrait (engraving), coat-of-arms (woodcut) ; 33 cm. (folio)
  
• Local note:UBC Library has one copy (Messerschmidt) with repaired title page; and one copy (Merivale) missing all 6 preliminary leaves before B3, several torn leaves, some repaired, and several index leaves bound out of order.
  
• Notes:Engraved t.p.
  Colophon: "Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, M.D.XCVII."
  Signatures: A⁴ B⁶ ²A-²B⁸ C-3V⁸ 3X¹⁰ 4A-4T⁸ 4V⁶ 5A-5I⁴.
  Coat of arms of Lord Burghley on t.p. verso; full page portrait of author facing p. 1, dated 1598.
  Includes indexes.
  
• Cited in:STC (2nd ed.) 11750
  Rosenwald 1263